Let Me Sum Up

A fortnightly podcast that sums up all those reports on climate and energy you don't have time to read. Because there is too much.

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Premise and priors

Recent Episodes

Sept. 11, 2025

Once You Start Down The Wood Side, Forever Will It Dominate Your Destiny

YODA (V.O.) Gas is the path to the Wood Side. Gas leads to emissions, emissions leads to warming, warming leads to suffering.
Aug. 28, 2025

Climate Hegemon: Gotta Catch Em All (Chinazard, Mimik-EU, Trumptwo)

A race to the top or a spiral into the abyss? It’s a petrostate vs electrostate climate geopolitics spectacular, with a side of Productivity Palooza 2025!
Aug. 14, 2025

Like Sands Through The Hourglass, So Are The NEM Reviews Of Our Lives

A gaggle of green-haired treasury officials, the Productivity Commission, and the ghost of NEM reviews past walk into a bar.

About the Hosts

Luke Menzel

Luke leans into his obsessions; as CEO of the Energy Efficiency Council and host of the First Fuel podcast he gets to bang on about the role of efficiency, electrification and flex in Australia's energy transition. And as co-host of LMSU, he spends his spare time continuing to talk about all that, plus everything else that's going on in climate and energy.

At the time of writing Luke's attempts to get Frankie and Tennant to start one or more LMSU spinoff podcasts focused on movies, TV shows, board games, video games and/or Lego have been unsuccessful.

Frankie Muskovic

Frankie is a longtime climate policy wonk who recently took on the role of leading the national policy agenda for the Investor Group on Climate Change. 

After 10 years at the Property Council of Australia, Frankie is also deeply invested in home efficiency and electrification and there’s really no stopping her from talking about it; indeed she said yes to doing a podcast with Luke and Tennant to spare her family yet more climate chat at the dinner table.

Always ambitious, Frankie has seized the mantle of LMSU Global Vice President for Marketing and Extortion and is executing a grandiose plan for world domination, one T-shirt at a time.

Tennant Reed

By day, Tennant is climate and energy guy for the Australian Industry Group. By night, he is a podcast co-host, a role-playing game moderator and an enthusiastic cook.

At all times, a tireless carbon border adjustment enthusiast and dodgy spreadsheet wrangler!